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>I fucking love this new meme
Solarian is the new Kineticist

More like monk

If you're starting at low levels, remember to dip soldier 1 before going full solarian.

So... hot fucking trash?

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Poe's law.

Hey where's that user that had a google drive for Stafinder conversions for the Starbound races? I found an older copy of it (like every race has a bonus to dex, it's awful), but I remember the user who made it in question was actively working on it, though that was back around October.

So would anything break if I said that for a feat/trait, an Occultist could have a tattoo of, carry a charm of, or have an etching/embroidery of the right associated implement for a Panoply alongside their actual implement in order to skip the specific implement requirements? It would be mainly to let archetypes in on the fun. Would anyone want to use that, or even allow it? If it were a feat I guess it should have a bonus effect, but all I got offhand is access to the elf fcb.

Haven't kept up with Pathfinder in a while. What's the current optimal setup for dual-wielding stuff?

Tieflings are gross and probably smell bad.

How would I go about making THE SAND GUARDIAN, GUARDIAN OF THE SAND?

Would anyone be interested in a game set in a Xenoblade 1- or 2-like world, at least as far as the very cool topography is concerned?

A "floating islands on a sea of clouds" setting? Been there, done that, a hundred and one times.

A "takes place on the back of a titanic, pseudo-godly entity"? Hello there, A'tuin.

To combine the two, so that you have multiple titans in an ocean of clouds, each of which boasts their own thriving populations along the exterior and/or interior of the titan? Now we have something interesting.

Sure, the idea is nothing original, even by the standards of generic old D&D. 2e's Spelljammer had something exactly like this in the crystal sphere named Herdspace, where moon- or world-sized megafauna grazed across a solar-system-sized savanna. Spelljammer also had a gas giant called Alabeth, where people lived atop and inside massive, floating creatures called "holbags."

But it really took until Xenoblade and Xenoblade 2 (the latter more so) for me to visually grasp the majesty and exoticness of it all. Such a setup looks incredible when properly depicted, especially when looking upon the more identifiably creature-like parts of a titan in motion.

This could even be used for a more multiversal cosmology: the Plane of Fire as a conflagrant titan blazing across an Elemental Chaos would be rather rad, especially when it crosses near the leviathan that is the Plane of Water, boiling the sea and kicking up plumes of steam.

Could it make for a good basis for a setting's layout?

>tfw no endless RPGs

I came because I saw sheredyn.

and now I must leave by the order of my emperor Zelavas

I need some help, out of boredom during a trip, I kind of got the idea of trying to recreate FF15 Noctis's fighting style and abilities. Of course I looked over resources and found that a gestalt telekinetic Armorist and Armiger(who a dev even admits is kind of based on him)

What I cant get over is the interaction of it all. Armiger is explicitly non magical yet I still wanted to retain that aspect of being able to conjure weapons or at least draw extradimensionally. Meanwhile it does seem that an armorist's armory is explicitly different with Armiger's ability to use his customized weapons all at once.

Is there a better way to do the concept perhaps? I did hear people say Armorist is crap meanwhile

Can't you designate your customized weapons as your bound ones?

My Tieflings always smell of scorched earth or wood smoke. I love those smells.

I have a questions anons. I've seen a lot of good smut playing and running various APs. Now I need to decide on the next one between council of thieves and ironfang invasion. I know what tiefling booty I can expect from CoT but what about Ironfang Invasion? Fey and Hobgoblins?

Also how good is ironfang invasion. Paizo reviews look good but Veeky Forums taught me to be skeptical about those.

I've heard talk of DHB's unchained martials or something like that, but I don't think I can find anything on it.

Could anyone tell me where to find it? I'm not sure if it's homebrew or published 3pp content, but searching for DHB doesn't give me anything. I may also just be retarded and not get what DHB means.

He's a freelance writer who posts here. Unshackled Gunslinger's been published by PDG and they're looking into getting the others published as wel.

docs.google.com/document/d/1pUevSnzc65Xw2cx3ah7iL7s1BBx0bVeF8xKlL0uFIcQ/edit

I think I remember a /pfg/ group tried to start Ironfang Invasion a while back, but the game died in its infancy. The AP didn't get too much interest on the whole, so I don't think /pfg/ knows much about it. Personally, it's really not my style. Point is, you might have better luck looking through the books of the AP and judging for yourself (assuming you're looking to DM a game).

I find your macabre taste in ladies relatable, so I wish you luck with your research.

The one by Rio? No that's still going, but a bit far removed from the actual book. Not too bad though. Had a PC death and one ran off (remade into something else).

I'm GMing ironfang in a month or so. If your players are competent they can:

waifu a one-legged ranger that worships cayden
Waifu an evil shortstack
Waifu a one-legged halfling ranger
Potentially get your hands on some drunk leprechauns
And potentially the citizens/civilians of phaendar if your GM puts pen to paper and fleshes them out

So a great AP if you have a grizzled old amputee fetish

>somebody's running a Ruins of Azlant game
>no aquatic races allowed

That's silly.

Aquatic races are silly. Either you're not running an aquatic game and aquatic races are gimped, or you're running an aquatic game and they're overpowered.

Look at merfolk. They were made to be strong in the water, but weak on land. Most campaigns take place on land, so Paizo buffed them up extra to make up for it. They get a net +6 ability score adjustment and an extra +2 AC to boot. If you play them in an aquatic campaign where their only drawbacks turn into advantages, that's pretty silly.

>Race: Under 16RP (Core and Featured Preferred. Uncommon allowed within reason and with good background.)
>If one or two exist that's alright. But really it should fit the narrative, and it might be weird to take more than one that is focused in such a way. It's not like the characters or the colonists know there's gonna be underwater combat. But having a specialist on board? Sure.

How was your holiday season, /pgg/? Do anything particularly fun or exciting, game-related or otherwise?

I just sent it in. So the archive should have the Creator's Handbook soon, then, hopefully.

Weird romance shennanigans between players. An autistic loli and a noble bard are competing for the affections of the mom-bot on the team.

Both called off a few hours before the game was supposed to start because people suddenly remembered that they had things going on after verifying they'd be able to make it earlier in the week.

Two weeks ago, one of my two players was sick, and I didn't find out until I was already at the LGS. His roommate, and my other player, wanted to schedule a game for last weekend.

No one showed up. I'm going to ask if they remembered when we meet this weekend.

They also gave me a gift card.

What sort of circumstances gave rise to these shenanigans?

Had a short game session on Friday and celebrated New Year's Eve with friends.

Never fun when there's a schedule change on next to no notice. Did you have any other enjoyable means to pass the time?

IMO the number of campaigns that start with the precept of "your characters have no clue what's about to happen to them" is way too prevalent and dumb. In every campaign I can think of outside of ones where the entire thing is built around your characters not know what to heck is going on, like Strange Aeons, it sets this bizarre precedent where you're supposed to simultaneously build your character so they don't die but not TOO "perfect for this situation" so they don't just walk all over the challenges presented?

Like, how am I supposed to immerse myself into a campaign when the players guide tells me that a campaign is going to have tons of Robots but my character should also have no logical reason to have an Adamantine sword to bypass DR/hardness even though that's going to be ESSENTIAL for my survival?

That's a pity-I spent the season ill myself. What store is the card for, user? Somewhere nice?

Took a break over the holidays, picking back up tonight though!

Not really, I had actually turned down a movie invite from friends because the game was going to be happening. I just ended up grinding out my frustrations by playing overwatch too late into the night.

Anything particularly notable happen during the session? Do anything particularly fun to ring in the new year?

Pretty good all things considered, my group started a new game Thursday and then continued a different game Friday, unfortunately due to illness the first game got cut short but the second one went well.

Mom-bot was originally built as a wife-bot to take care of this elderly guy. He's long dead. Her programming dictates that whomever passionately kisses her is set as the new owner. (Characters aren't aware of this.) Because of this programming, she is _desperate_ to have a kid, but obviously can't, being a robot. So she unwittingly manipulates the loli to satisfy her maternal instincts.

Loli was literally built to be raped by her 'mom', as far as we can tell so far. So she's got mommy issues and manipulates mom-bot back.

My guy enters into the situation as a long time customer and acquaintance to mom-bot. Having only recently upgraded to PC, he stayed in her room one night (long story. She slept elsewhere) and saw her masterwork lingerie of Perform (sexual techniques) and realized she has a sexual side. Combine that with the fact he's currently her secretary and he's got a crush going on.

The Loli does not like competition for mommy's affections.

Got kicked out of one game because I told the DM it was bullshit to not invite me to session 0

Then pulled the group in half, took the good players and made a new group which should be starting next weekend

Anything you're especially looking forward to?

Sorry to hear about the illness. Seems a lot of folks were sick this season. Did anything exciting happen in either game?

Group schisms generally aren't too pleasant, but hopefully the new game proves enjoyable. Anything you're particularly excited for?

Hats off to you for the cute fennec pictures. Love those things.

Me too, user.

I'm going to get to play an unabashedly anime game IRL with a bunch of good friends which is going to be quite a bit better than the other game would have been. I'm looking forward to it

Well, the sorcerer got the group got permanently banned from what is essentially the main hub of the game's setting.

As for New Year's Eve, me and my friends went out to eat and played video games...I was the only one who drank though.

Did you do anything to celebrate the new year?

Kinda sucked. Hung out with immediate family, but we do that all the time. Did get dragged into being a guinea pig for my sister's attempts to make some cocktails, and I got pleasantly buzzed for the first time ever on new years eve, which was a change of pace. Probably won't do that very often. Neither game did a whole lot. Had a bit of a downtime break session in one, the other had someone not show up two weeks in a row.

The first game was Zeitgeist, it's the first 3rd party campaign but we ended at a good pausing point regardless so it worked out.

Second game was a lot more involved, it's a high-level campaign where we've returned to an old set of characters to push them further than we've gone before both in the sense of levels (we've hardly, if ever, played above level 12 in any given campaign) as well as with the sheer scale of events that are transpiring. Long story short an Uberlich has taken control of the Starstone and has used its power to lock away Pharasma, thus throwing everything out of wack and disrupting the balance of life and death. This is even affecting the gods themselves, if we don't stop this from happening Charon has kindly informed us that everyone WILL die and the Lich will use this newly wrought power to bring everything to zero. Right now the other 3 Horsemen are also in the middle of trying to stymie this by fighting against his agents, but in our last session we were informed that War bit the dust, so only Pestilence and Famine remain.

We, in turn, have succeeded in destroying one of the Lich's generals, an Elf that had taken control of the Positive Energy Plane and was corrupting it with life everywhere. Nothing could die and everything was just taking in more and more energy, growing fat and slowly congealing together until the amount of creatures couldn't even be ascertained and could be walked upon like solid ground. Destroying the general freed his corrupting influence, however, which allowed the Plane to purge itself of the plague that had been wrought upon it. Now we're on our way to the Negative Energy Plane to deal with the general corrupting things there, then hopefully once we deal with that we'll try to do something about the Lich himself.

It's a Visa gift card.

Wait, so why do the Daemonic Horsemen have a problem with what this uberlich is up to? If you say its going to use its power to "bring everything to zero", that sounds an awful lot like the sort of oblivion daemonkind strives for.

That oblivion includes the daemons, when I say zero I mean ZERO. I'm not sure if this is where my DM took inspiration but imagine the Lich King from Adventure Time, a being of absolute destruction that is less of a personality and more of a program trying to destroy anything and everything, not for a means to an end but because the destruction IS its purpose.

Also he has a little bit of a different interpretation of what the Horsemen should be, as everyone in our group agrees that reducing them to simple daemons is a bit regressive when the figures they're originally based on are less "evil figures that only sort of resemble their aspect" and more "force of nature that we would consider to be evil only because we are alive and we don't want to die".

The Daemons sort of know they're going to die off once everything gets killed, so...

>In the blasphemous annals of fiendish lore, they are the prophesied architects of multiversal ruin, destined to stand triumphant over cadaverous cosmoses and infinities of silence before also giving way to absolute oblivion.

>reading Wormwood mutiny
Who the fuck thought any of this was okay, holy shit.

They're also is apparently privy to when the end times are supposed to happen, and as far as we can tell it's not supposed to happen yet. Actually, wasn't there an entire video game about the Horsemen accidentally unleashing the End Times too early and War got hit with the blame for it?

Yeah, Darksiders.

>mixing lore from multiple sources
holy heck dude

The freedoms you have when you run a homebrewed game. Neat, ain't it?

>evil shortstack
Wait, who's that?

In the second book you can "ally" with a Redcap to take on the dungeon boss and she'll turn on you the moment he's dead.

>Waifuing a fungus

Redcaps aren't a fungus, they're more like a fey goblin. With a red hat, and boots made for kicking. Hence redcap.

That said, if you were to go up against a creature made of plants, could you potentially non-lethally knock it out in some way?

I did, actually-I'd recovered from my illness pretty thoroughly by that time, so I was able to attend a friend's gathering. Played some fun party games, entertained people on the piano a bit, had some excellent rum, and watched fireworks in good company. Overall, it was a lovely evening.

>how does this thing that doesn't exist in reality work?

however the author/GM/whatever think it works

I was more asking within the confines of game mechanics, as far as I'm aware plants and plant-based creatures are immune to sleep effects, right?

Non lethal damage isn't a sleep effect, and plants aren't immune to it despite that defying all logic.

Any drinks in particularly tickle your fancy? Did your character do anything notable with their downtime?

The dwarven blacksmith in book 1

Why would plants be immune to nonlethal? You know you can bruise a plant, right?

What does that even look like on anything that isn't a fruit? And even then bruised fruit is just sped-up oxidation in that particular area.

Only got two try two different ones, Brandy Alexander and a Grasshopper. Not a big fan of how minty the Grasshopper was, but we couldn't get the right mix for the BA's. Still drank like, two and a half of them though, and hopefully next time we can get the stuff for a Chocolate Martini.

As far as the downtime, we've still gotta close it up when people are less busy. Some fun character interactions though, my character is worrying about premature graying even though his hair is naturally that color.

I have to ask, what rituals are being done here, and does it have anything to do with spell level or is it something else?

I'm not talking about fruit "bruising", I mean shit like a tree trunk or even a flowering plant's stem. They have structures analogous to the human vascular system, which can be ruptured to cause bruising just like a human or other animal's.

Recruiting:

app.roll20.net/lfg/listing/98182/ruins-of-azlant-ap-by-sq

Yeah, but you can't exactly knock a plant out.

Well, technically you can but you need chemicals to do it. Not a sap.

What about the sap of a different plant, would that work?

Ironfang Invasion is NuPaizo, which means you need to expect ugly women and effeminate men.

>not this shit again

No offense, user, but that's fucking stupid.

I know, it's one of the many reasons Ironfang Invasion was a huge stinky flop around here.

My group is bugging me to run a game, but I'm not motivated. I had one idea that might make it a game for me, which I wanted to ask you about. My idea is to add a scout DMPC hireling whose goal is to try to skim loot from the party. Their game is to play the adventure, mine is to try to secret away treasure they aren't keeping good track of, by various means. Has anyone tried this? I need a reason to run the game, it's just not fun otherwise.

Don't do it.

>I need a reason to run the game, it's just not fun otherwise.

Just don't run it.

Don't steal from PCs.

Just run an adventure for a few sessions, then make one of them do it.

I still could use a third for Return to White Plume. Would be nice to play this Wednesday, could skip to next week if we get a player.

docs.google.com/document/d/1FFfVFZbJtnDiMBFmgJwEgCUXbagrfzXvpKS6Pm9Ddpw/edit?usp=sharing

I haven't been here in like a month. Has anything interesting happened?

Legendary Shifters.

o shit cool.
is that in the pastebin?